From the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange sent a stirring video message to supporters in which he denounced the government’s counter-terrorism programme, PREVENT as a 'modern system of making people into informants.'

In a 35 minutes phone call he was permitted to give to his lawyer, Mahdi Hashi was able to give a glimpse of the mistreatment he suffered during his disappearance in East Africa. These revelations prove that Barack Obama, despite his words, is indeed a proud inheritor of the legacy of rendition and torture left by his predecessors.

COINTELPRO was a series of covert and often illegal projects conducted by the FBI from the late 1950s through the 1970s. It was aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting community groups fighting for justice.

Preparing for the Maghreb Salah as I rose to spread the prayer rug, the melodious verses of the glorious Quran, pouring from the neighboring mosques, kept on playing a soothing note upon the strings of my soul.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, the Pakistani spy agency funneled millions of dollars to a Washington nonprofit group in a secret effort to influence Congress and the White House, the Justice Department said Tuesday in court documents that are certain to complicate already strained relations between the U.S. and Pakistan.